Police are preparing to charge a farmer, his teenaged son and an employee with last week’s brutal Black Bush triple murder.
Investigators say that the victims were killed because they were seen during a planned fuel theft.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday told Stabroek News that the hunt is on for a fourth person who was allegedly present when the crime was committed. Police sources last evening confirmed that the wife of the farmer was earlier in the day arrested and is assisting with the investigations.
Stabroek News has since been told that the three men who are to be charged are Carlton Chaitram, 37, known as ‘Lyma’ and Jairam Chaitram, 17, and Tameshwar Jagmohan, 18, known as ‘Guana’ all three are from Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder.
Rakesh Karamchand, 27, known as ‘Go to front’, from Sheet Anchor, Canje, is now being sought by the police in connection with the deaths. Up to press time last evening there was no word on whether he had been detained and no wanted bulletin was issued by police.
The team from the Police’s Georgetown- based Major Crimes Unit, who have been leading the investigation made a major breakthrough on Wednesday night when one of the suspects started to release vital pieces of information.
They along with four other suspects were transported to police headquarters, Eve Leary where they were further grilled by sleuths.
Stabroek News was told that a mission to steal fuel was at the centre of the gruesome murders. When the fuel thieves arrived they found Pawan Chandradeo, 37, Jaikarran Chandradeo, 15 and Naresh Rooplall, 33 fishing.
Based on what the investigators were told, the three were shot dead out of fear that the identities of the fuel thieves would be revealed. The shooting occurred after two warning shots were fired in the air to scare off the trio. This account is consistent with what the lone survivor, 11-year-old Alvin Chandradeo told investigators. The boy who was left behind at a camp recalled that around 10pm, while he awaited the return of his relatives, he heard two gunshots, followed by another gunshot a short while after.
The source said that the three victims started to run and the fuel thieves chased after them. A suspect told the police that after the victims realised that they were known to the men chasing them, they stopped running. It was then that the men caught up with them and shot them.
Yesterday, the suspects were transported back to the crime scene and they provided detectives with a detailed account of what transpired that night. The trio was later transported back to Georgetown.
Meanwhile, Sudama Jagmohan, known as King who owns 2000 acres of land where the victims had gone to fish, told Stabroek News that he has been losing fuel continuously for a number of years. He said he never suspected or caught anyone. Jagmohan said, “These men are me neighbour, one is me nephew, but he living with them man that”. Jagmohan who was detained during the initial stages of the investigation said, “Them been a try to seh me do it, that me nah like when nobody go catch fish, but me never stop anybody to go catch fish there”.
He told Stabroek News that he told his workmen who were also detained during the early stages of the investigation ,”them police gun catch who do it, me give them mind and say, them star boys does get lock up and beat up in the starting a movies and then in the end the truth does come out”.
Chandradeo, his son and brother in law were found dead less than a day after they had left to go on a fishing trip. The three were found with one gunshot wound each at Kokerite Savannah, Mibicuri Creek last Friday. Post-mortem examinations revealed that Chandradeo sustained a laceration to his head resulting in a fractured skull and he subsequently died of shock and haemorrhaging. The other two also died of shock and haemorrhaging.
